From Depth to Local Depth: A Focus on Centrality

Davy Paindaveine and Germain Van bever

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, vol. 108, issue 503, 1105-1119

Abstract: Aiming at analyzing multimodal or nonconvexly supported distributions through data depth, we introduce a local extension of depth. Our construction is obtained by conditioning the distribution to appropriate depth-based neighborhoods and has the advantages, among others, of maintaining affine-invariance and applying to all depths in a generic way. Most importantly, unlike their competitors, which (for extreme localization) rather measure probability mass, the resulting local depths focus on centrality and remain of a genuine depth nature at any locality level. We derive their main properties, establish consistency of their sample versions, and study their behavior under extreme localization. We present two applications of the proposed local depth (for classification and for symmetry testing), and we extend our construction to the regression depth context. Throughout, we illustrate the results on several datasets, both artificial and real, univariate and multivariate. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.813390

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